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Feds investigate Dallas hospital, docs for fraud
Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas seemed to be heading on the right track after reaching an agreement with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for corrective actions to stay open
Hospital refutes alleged billing fraud, whistleblower retaliation
Wyoming Medical Center on Friday filed a court document denying a former employee's accusations that hospital clerks altered patient records and submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for
14 hospitals to pay $12M over false surgical claims
Fourteen hospitals across the country will be shelling out a combined $12 million to settle allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare, involving spinal fractures procedures, the U.S.
Hospital to pay $3M over improper billing charges
Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, N.Y., will pay more than $3 million to settle claims that it improperly billed Medicare and Medicaid, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday. The medical
Hospital exec embezzled $3.2M, insurer alleges
An insurer filed a lawsuit against a former executive of what is now the Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center for allegedly embezzling more than $3 million through false claims, the lawsuit
Hospitals to pay $6.3M for overcharging Medicare
Seven hospitals in six states have agreed to pay the government a total of more than $6.3 million to settle claims that they overcharged Medicare between 2000 and 2008 when performing back surgery
Husband and wife guilty of $13.7 million HIV Medicare fraud plot
South Florida continues to distinguish itself as a hotbed of Medicare fraud. A husband and wife team pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court in Miami for participating in a $13.7 million HIV
SPOTLIGHT: 94 charged with $251 million in false Medicare claims
Federal officials charged 94 people with plotting to swindle Medicare out of more than $251 million in false claims, the Department of Justice and other federal agencies said in a joint statement
Qui tam: 15-bed hospital agrees to $846,000 whistleblower settlement
A country doctor and the small, community-owned hospital he serves have agreed to pay the federal government more than $846,000 to settle allegations that they needlessly admitted Medicare patients
Medicare fraud strike force charges 53 providers, execs and beneficiaries
Well, HHS head Kathleen Sebelius had promised that Medicare's Fraud Strike Force was stepping up operations, and I guess she wasn't kidding. Today, the agency announced (via @hhs_gov on Twitter,
